Legion of Naruto

Chapter 2

Today found team 7 early in the morning and waiting for their errant sensei to show up from wherever his latest excuse put him this time. Sasuke had taken to following Naruto's example but was training his great fireball technique, while Naruto's clones were again continuing chakra control exercises on the trees. Naruto himself was doing something that even had Sakura trying to puzzle him out. And that? Naruto had a scroll open and was repeatedly writing something down. Around him where another dozen clones doing the same. Walking over to stand over one of them, Sakura tilted her head and the vaguely familiar scrawl, "What's that Naruto?"

Not looking up from what he was doing, Naruto(or a clone of him at least) continued his work while answering his crush, "Trying to make exploding tags."

Confused as to why he would go through that effort at all Sakura stood up straight with her hands on her hips, "Couldn't you just buy a bunch of those? Why learn how to make them?" That's what everyone else did after all and they worked just fine.

Deciding explaining to the girl that some shops still didn't want to sell things to him and that it would be dumb expensive if he was able to buy the amount he needed for what he had planned, he instead went with a more bookish answer. "If I learn how to make them, I can make traps with them besides just using paper bombs."

Nodding at the actual thoughtful answer, Sakura walked away, "If you say so, I think you're just wasting your time. Sasuke could just blow everyone away with his fireball anyway." Strutting away from the loudmouth blonde, Sakura's curiosity was sated for now.

"Yatta! Think I got it!" One of his clones(Or maybe that was the real naruto) began putting some chakra into the seal he made on a scrap of paper in his excitement.

"Wait wait wait, not so close you idiot!" Another Naruto cried out while a more aware clone grabbed the now freaking out copy holding the paper tag by the jacket.

"Sorry buddy!" Heaving and tossing the clone up and over the trees, the explosion sent a blast wave that rocked the training ground and knocked leaves from the trees above them all. All movement and training stopped with Sasuke and Sakura turning irritated looks at the nervously grinning blonde. "Uh, I did it?"

"We can see that you knuckle head!" Sakura was always quick to show off her impressive lungs, Naruto noted.

"Dobe." Going back to his own training Sasuke put the blonde out of his mind. He could train all he liked, but an Uchiha would always be better than him.

Shrugging while sorting through the memories, Naruto dispelled his tag making group before remaking a new one. "Alright guys, practice makes perfect. And if you make a tag, run off a bit before setting it off okay?"

"Hai!" Getting a chorus of responses, they all set to work.

This was what Kakashi walked into this morning, a disgruntled Sakura and slightly exhausted Sasuke watching as a procession of Narutos ran off towards the lake only to explode in spectacular fashion. Shaking his head and clapping his hands together, Kakashi got everyone's attention, "Sorry everyone, a black cat tried to cross my path, so I had to find a new route where I ran into this snake that tried to bite me. But I'm here now!"

"Liar!" Sakura and for once even Sasuke joined in on her finger pointing. Huh, that couldn't bode well for him could it?

"Mah mah, com'on now, let's go get our mission and we'll end early for today ne?" Smiling as his cute students all formed up before him, they all turned and started heading for the tower. Naruto idly dispelled his clones while pocketing his seal making tools in his thigh pouch. Before making his now very familiar seal and creating an even larger group of clones that ran back to the training ground. Kakashi raised an eyebrow and watched the clones run off, "What's that about Naruto-kun?"